Germanic one of the largest subgroups of the IndoEuropean language family comprises 37 languages with an estimated 470 million speakers worldwide. Thisbook pre... » 

Germanic one of the largest subgroups of the IndoEuropean language family comprises 37 languages with an estimated 470 million speakers worldwide. Thisbook presents a comparative linguistic survey of the full range of Germaniclanguages both ancient and modern including major world languages such asEnglish and German West Germanic the Scandinavian North Germaniclanguages and the extinct East Germanic languages. Unlike previous studies itdoes not take a chronological or a languagebylanguage approach organizedinstead around linguistic constructions and subsystems. Considering dialectsalongside standard varieties it provides a detailed account of topics such ascase word formation sound systems vowel length syllable structure the nounphrase the verb phrase the expression of tense and mood and the syntax ofthe clause. Authoritative and comprehensive this muchneeded survey will bewelcomed by scholars and students of the Germanic languages as well aslinguists across the many branches of the field. «